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Introduction of the National Prevailing Wage Determination, ETA Form 9141.

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Foreign degree equivalences for EB2 and EB3.

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Use of qualifying experience gained with the sponsoring employer or as a contractor.

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Foreign Language Requirements

Combination of Occupations

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Alternative Requirements

Ensuring that the company has the ability to pay.

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But above all, we act for a very simple reason: in times of tragedy, the United States of America steps forward and helps.

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Dear Editor:
With regard to ID's comment about the catastrophe in Haiti (01/14/10 ID), sending US military assistance to help the victims is certainly more beneficial than propping up a government of corrupt warlords and drug dealers in Afghanistan, or making Iraq secure for Western oil companies. ID has done excellent research on the long history of relations between Haiti and North America. But the biggest symbols of the close ties between Haiti and the US are Chrome Detention Center and the US Coast Guard. The Department of Homeland Security, after making a humanitarian gesture by granting Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the US, has now reverted to its usual immigration enforcement-only mode. According to the Washington Post, DHS has announced that Haitians trying to escape the horrors caused by the earthquake will be prevented from coming to the US. The same report says that expanded immigration detention facilities are already being prepared to "welcome" anyone who manages to avoid being turned back or drowning at sea. The inhuman policy of using the Coast Guard to stop Haitian refugees on the high seas and force them back to their country in violation of international law dates from the Clinton era. But despite the Obama administration's reassuring rhetoric about America's friendship for Haiti, it seems that for Janet Napolitano's DHS, appeasing those who want to keep people of color out of the US at all costs is the top priority, even as Haiti turns into a vast tomb.

Roger Algase, Esq.
New York, NY

Dear Editor:
I really enjoyed ID's comment (01/14/10), agree with it in most part, and am appreciative. However, I would like to make the following correction: Haiti did not exist at that time ... Haiti as we know it was created in 1804. The Haitian Revolution started in 1791 and ended in 1804. Way after the American Revolution. The people who helped the American Revolution were not Haitian per say; they were free African slaves of Saint-Domingue, under the command of Comte d'Estaing, for their participation in the siege of Savannah. The proper name for the island currently shared by the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti, was "AYITI". A land rightfully owned by an Arawak people who called themselves Tainos. It is possible that they could have called these free African slaves: Africans of Ayiti.

Yosie Saint-Cyr

Dear Editor:
In August 2002 Mr Bush passed a law to protect children from aging out due to backlogs and visa availability in certain preference category, however immigration is yet to follow the instruction of this law. Ina203(h)(d) and publication 107-208 of the Child Status Protection act clearly states that if a child age out ,meaning reach the age of 21, the child age will be subtracted from the number of days the i130 was pending ,and when a visa becomes available from the child age, so their age will be locked in. The other part states that if after doing this calculation the child age is said to be 21 or older, the child must be converted to the appropriate category and retain the old priority date upon receipt, again this bill clearly states that the age out child will be converted to either the 2b or whatever category they fall under to keep their old priority date. Immigration is yet to do that instead they came up with their own interpretation and deny giving these children the chance of getting a green card, by giving them a new priority date when their parent reapply for them, putting them back to the end of a very long line for another 10years after they waited with their parent for almost 15years already. This is a very serious issue and congress and Mr Obama need to look into this This is such an unfair situation it hurts me when i think about this. President Obama must look into this, and if I have to walk from NY to Washington to get this message out I will, because too many lives are affected by this. This treatment is harsh and cruel, this is not humane.

Lisa

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